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...half-billion-dollar mark in its first 19 days. And that mighty Moloch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - second in a possibly infinite series of testosterone-fueled toy stories - is at the three-quarters-of-a-billion mark after 26 days. Numbers like those are the main reason Hollywood's slavish adherence to remaking its biggest hits won't change anytime soon. (See pictures of the cast of Harry Potter growing up through the years...
Half-Blood Prince didn't come near Revenge of the Fallen's opening $200 million bonanza. But in North America, at least, HP6 may have been seen by nearly as many people; they're just not paying as much to see it. As Nikki Finke notes on her Deadline Hollywood Daily blog: "HP6 with a PG rating is selling more discounted kiddie tickets. And it had virtually no biz from higher priced IMAX theaters: just 3 venues compared to TF2's 169." Not that the moneymen care about the number of tickets sold. Bucks, not bodies, determine box-office winners...
...Beyond its longevity records and the billions it has amassed in box-office and DVD revenues, the Harry Potter series is a proud, mammoth act of commercial, communal filmmaking. It's Hollywood at its finest, though the setting, accent, ensemble cast and most of the creative team are - as with the James Bond films - distinctly English...
...Still, perhaps this criticism is unfair, since my favorite part of Shanghai Girls could be considered just such a plausibility-straining coincidence. It finds the narrator, cast as an extra in a Hollywood film, walking around a backlot version of old Shanghai - and noting how little it resembles the city she remembers...
...Awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame...